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Littleness Poems

Orphan

...You chance upon her
in the far reaches of the backyard
a place you never go
and there she trembles  a tiny tiger in a blurred world 
secreted in shadows below blackthorn shrubs 

faint mews dra...

Categories: littleness, animal, care, emotions, innocence,
Form: Free verse

Crying Mercy

...In the wild confusion of my life, I saw your face,
  A kind countenance making bright my days.
   Through rugged tracks when I stumbled along,
    I felt an unseen hand holding me strong.

 When...

Categories: littleness, angst, devotion, god, inspirational
Form: Rhyme

More Or Less

...We tend to give a little more 
to the little ones.
Nonetheless,
it's not a matter of
belittlement.
The lesson in lessness,
is not a matter of nothing less 
nor nothing else
nor is it about st...

Categories: littleness, children, food, meaningful,
Form: Free verse

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Wrath

...We read concupiscently
of little women and little men
of entertainment,
great singers
of our littleness
and of the greatness of their pools  
and of their ty flirtations.
We read of their anxi...

Categories: littleness, deep,
Form: Free verse

The Truly Blind

...It's about truth and lies, the seen and unseen
About how the heart dies or what that will mean
About life to come, all the promises Jesus has made
But for more than some their own vision has betra...

Categories: littleness, jesus,
Form: Rhyme

Presence of Love

...your presence was for a while, 
for a little time being; 

but this littleness 
stained my heart immensely 

o' dear, look 
that littleness 
now- an epic, an epoch; 
centuries waves



-...

Categories: littleness, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Who Stole the Hardware Store

...Getting back to plaintiff's grip
I wasn't guilty is my quip
the newest Model on the floor
a flagrant entry of encore!

And littleness became the store
that when a tiny bolt could score
availab...

Categories: littleness, motivation, stress,
Form: Monorhyme

Lunch Salad

...As I gaze at my gorgeous lunch salad
sings to me a sonorous love ballad!
What’s dazzling about temporal food
that calls for this surreal mood?
The melting silk of shredded cheddar cheese
...

Categories: littleness, food,
Form: Rhyme

Talking of Melancholy

...A man so afflicted
Must divert distressing thoughts
And not combat with them
To attempt otherwise is madness
To have the compliance of the mind 
Is a great profound art
It may be attained in co...

Categories: littleness, allusion, inspiration,
Form: Alliteration

Eleven Twenty-Thirty Six

...sighs invade my fingertips,
scratching whorls and loops--

and all that comes to mind 
is the littleness of my heart.

of how it cannot take 
this, that, much, of regret-grief-silence

this ...

Categories: littleness, introspection, loss, lost, sad,
Form: Free verse

A Busy City Street

...A Busy City Street

Every day I walk along a busy city street.
every day I meet largeness of an elephant
                           and smallness of an atom
                           in the bus...

Categories: littleness, loneliness, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?

A Wisp of Smoke

...And there I was...
a cigarette in hand
It was all I could hold.
You came to me
spoke of things
so small.
I allowed them in.
I could take the littleness of it all.
Nothing larger than my breat...

Categories: littleness, life,
Form: Bio

Button-Coins

...Across from the ancient building,
Overview of the roadside park,
Modern day mega-mall,
Chocolate delight.
All one can eat.
Competition stands mighty & real against the retail shop of day old jel...

Categories: littleness, hope, imagination, life, love,
Form: I do not know?